Herdsmen strike in Idoma community, kill police officer, okada rider in Ado

A commercial cyclist and a police officer have been killed in Ado Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected terrorists/herdsmen.

The sad incident occurred earlier this morning before the Idokpo Market. The police officer was attacked at the Police post before the Market and after the Army post. They shot the officer at close range while the commercial cyclist unsuspectingly ran into the assailants.

Mc Johnson Odey, the Special Adviser on Security to the Ado Local government Executive Chairman, quoted James Oche has described the act as cruel, inhuman and intolerable and has vowed to, at whatever cost bring the perpetrators to book.

The Council Boss is embittered by the development and has said there is no room for criminals and their elements in Ado further expressing his zeal to, in using the instrumentality of the law sanitize his domain.

The chairman summoned an emergency meeting of the Local Government Security Council and thereafter personally briefed security agencies who are on course trailing the assailants.

He urges the people to remain calm, law abiding and also volunteer information that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of the killers while promising that his administration was ready for the task of ensuring security of lives and property.